I wrote The Captive’s Psalm not just as a memoir, but as a lifeline for women navigating covert psychological abuse, legal systems, and spiritual restoration.

Every major turning point in my life began as a contradiction. God’s word said one thing. My circumstances said another. The miracle was not that He spoke; the miracle was that His word proved more reliable than the evidence in front of me.

For years, I searched for understanding in my feelings, my circumstances, and the opinions of others. What I found instead was confusion. Many of the struggles I faced were difficult not only because they existed, but because I lacked the language to describe them. Some realities remain hidden in plain sight because the culture around us has no words for them, or has assigned them the wrong names.

It wasn’t until God patiently led me back to Scripture that things began to change. The Bible became more than a book of stories or religious instruction. It became a dictionary.

Through its pages, I learned to distinguish:

• Truth from distortion

• Accountability from blame

• Boundaries from bitterness

• Forgiveness from enabling

• Peace from silence

• Faith from passivity

I have come to believe that the Bible is how we learn the foreign language God speaks. The more we read it, the more clearly we recognize His voice when He speaks into our lives. We begin to see what was previously hidden, name what was previously confusing, and understand circumstances that once seemed impossible to explain.

The stories and reflections shared here are ultimately meant to draw attention to the faithfulness of God. More than anything, my prayer is that they would awaken a deeper passion for knowing Him through His Word, inspire you to pursue a relationship with Him more intimately than ever before, and encourage you to discover for yourself that He is far more present, personal, and active in our lives than we often realize.